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The Las Vegas casino landscape is changing all the time. Between new casinos going up all the time in previously undeveloped areas, closing/implosion/rebuilding of long-standing properties, and others just being bought and going under new ownership, it's hard to keep track of all the changes for locals, let alone for tourists. This page will offer a glance for people to keep updated between visits.
The Monte Carlo is expected to reopen on Friday, Feb. 15, three weeks to the day since the top of the hotel caught fire on Jan. 25. Guests were sent to other resorts and workers have been repairing the damage. The photos below are from a few days after the fire when work was just beginning to repair the facade that faces south. I especially like the shot with the CityCenter project going up next door, an angle that wasn't used in many news reports.
There is more Casino News below the pics.
(Photos by Andy Ducay)
Jan. 24: The Hard Rock Hotel will also officially be under new management in February as the Gaming Commission approved Morgans Hotel, which hasn't run a casino before, to run the casino as well as the hotel.
Jan. 24: The Stratosphere is also undergoing a change with a subsidiary of Goldman Sachs buying Carl Icahn's American Casino & Entertainment Properties. Feb. 12 is the closing date.
Unknown: The rest of the New Frontier was finally torn down (if you saw video back on Nov. 13 of the hotel's implosion, that was just the main tower while other building were left standing until recently. A large chunk of the west side of Las Vegas Boulevard is vacant with the Stardust also having been imploded on March 13, 2007. The Stardust is being replaced by the $4 billion Echelon Place project and the site of the (old) New Frontier is expected to be the site of a replica of the Plaza Hotel in New York (though the Plaza in downtown Las Vegas has filed suit claiming trademark infringement).